A Land of Darkness (Parias season 1, episode 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this episode of Parias, we take ourselves to the Antarctic circle of the Lucindan continent, examining the adaptations needed to survive one of the coldest places on the planet, five million years after the planet was abandoned by humanity.
Parias (Pronounced Par I us) is a speculative evolution project that follows the evolutionary future of the flora and fauna abandoned on this terraformed world far, far away from Earth. This world can be found in the Necare system, a solar system with twin suns. If you would like to, subscribe and like the video for more content like this in the future! It would be really helpful if you were to do this, as I plan to upload more about this project shortly.
Parias is also an open project! We have a discord server with around 105 members at the time of me writing this description, but if you so wish the link for joining the server will be down below. On the discord server, you will have access to a community of speculative evolution enjoyers alongside perks such as first access to videos and sneak peaks for upcoming projects. Maybe even a blooper reel here and there! On top of that, you can upload your own creatures to be in the canon of Parias, the rules for which can be found in said server. It would mean the world to me if you can come on by, so check it out!
I would like to thank you all for watching and subscribing, you guys are the best and I couldn't be gladder to produce content for y'all. At the time of writing this description, the channel has almost 400 subscribers, I am very grateful for each and every one of you to be here watching this video. Unfortunately, after this video I will have some schoolwork to get to so another episode will likely not come out for another month or two.
Discord: / discord
Video came out great. Glad I could help the project with some submissions. Looking forward to the next video.
thank you so much! It was fun creating the combined images of the life drawn in this video and can't wait to draw more down the line
This video has two standout aspects:
1. I have never heard of, or even imagined, a queen and cast based hive species that is a plant, as opposed to an animal. It is always a treat to come across an idea that is both entirely new and fascinating.
2. It is a joy to see the inclusion of fungi. This is the only speculative evolution project I've seen that has not ignored the fungus kingdom.
I am very glad you appreciate these aspects of the new episode! I made sure that unlike other spec evo projects, all the 3 major kingdoms of eukaryotes get their time in the sun, as most projects are on the more charismatic animals and further into the more charismatic chordates.
Parias monday and Kaimere Tuesday? Splendid.
Based Kaimere enjoyer spotted
@@AspenAspires Kaimere enjoyers stronk together. Have you seen the Silent ones episode?
@@leoornstein3963 heck yea! Real crazy cool stuff there. The extreme metabolism adaptations were really cool
That was terrifying
Kaimere fans unite together
I think that some of these spiders should evolve towards something that resembles hermit crabs. also very cool series
Thank you for the feedback! I like the concept of hermit crab spiders, may use that later on in the series
This is my new Favorite Documentary series.
I am so glad this is your favorite! I hope you enjoy all it has to offer
I think you are damn underrated. You deserve more public and more notoriety.
Thank you! I have big plans for the channel that aren't Parias related, and I hope that brings a larger viewing to the channel. I am glad that people like you have found my content and I hope you have a wonderful day :)
@@AspenAspires You're welcome and have a nice day too!
Great video! I like the Spec Evo and tbh ur voice. Its calm, clear and has a slightly melancholic tone, which i like.
Just a little note to the Fur-topic.
The reason why almost only mammals/Birds have fur/feathers is because they are warm-blooded animals. Reptiles, crustaceans, spiders and insects that don't live in hives as bees) derive little benefit from fur, other than as protection from parasites or, in some cases, from moisture.
Since they dont produce any bodyheat, it is actually counterproductive, as an insect etc. would actually shield itself from heat sources.
It would take valuable time because the temperature exchange would be slower and the animal would therefore be vulnerable to attacks for longer. That's why it's usually the case that these animals require some kind of antifreeze instead.
This is not meant as a roast or harsh criticism, but just additional info.
Got it, thank you! Will take into consideration in other episodes, and I am glad you liked my video!
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I like the 'Note: the big white line does not exist on Parias'
glad you liked that detail!
I haven't watched the other eps yet but I do wonder where my snow trooper the wolverine has gone? I couldn't imagine a world with such a climate where those steroid badgers would just go extinct. But still love the stuff you’re making and I’ll wait like a good little boy for my monster wolverine descendant
Wow the false qaul is a really cool and interesting idea also the predatory pig is an awesome one two
Thank you so much!
This project is very interesting! I'll be watching everything and waiting for more ❤
Thank you very much! Hopefully more will be coming soon over the summer
Wow this world is incredible and i love the slight variation that makes it unique and that soothing narrating voice is just amazing
I do like some of the wierd plants their very interesting in designs
I'm glad you like my narrating voice! I'm gonna keep my voice in this format for future videos on Parias
@@AspenAspires please do no other actir could fit the calm atmosphere of parias
@@tiradeepinthewild thank you, but the voice actor isn't getting replaced any time soon (the VA in question is me and I'm not planning on replacing myself any time soon)
Love seeing a collaborative project like this!
glad you like it!
All thats burrowing in the underground would make the soil brittle and prone to collapsing..... maybe a big ass extinction?
Cool video. I like how you had all sorts of species for different areas like fungi and aquatic animals. Itd be cool to see what stuff youll come up with for some more birds or small mammals like mice/ rats.
eg one that is the same yellow color as the aspen leaves around the time of autumn and use that as camoflage on the forest floor to survive and reproduce massively where most of the more dangerous predators would be hybernating or migrating. but you could probably come up with cooler ideas
Single branchedly, awww that is so cute
thank you!
Guys, this is incredible! Amazing work from all those involved.
Thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed the video
YEAH EVOLUTION MY FAVORITE PART :D
Absolutely spectacular video!!
Thank you so much!
oh new vid! Cant watch rn but im curious to watch it when i have time
Works perfectly with me! Hopefully the next video won't be as long, given the lower diversity deserts tend to have ecologically speaking
Amazing Art! :)
Thank you!
@@AspenAspires Your Welcome
The video is gold
thank you! I hope you enjoyed it
Hi I really enjoy your project but sadly I can't join the discord for some reason my device for some reason splits it in two and stuff but I do say I enjoy this series
That is unfortunate but I am glad you enjoy the project!
Amazing video! excited for more
Thank you so much!
Love this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh hell yeah another parias episode!
Thank you so much! Hopefully the next one doesn’t take forever ay
A (semi) eusocial tree is a fascinating idea
Thanks! They were my favorite plant for this episode, although I will say I am very biased >:)
The long wait is over!
At long last
Nice stuff my guy
Thank you so much!
It was only at the end of the episode that I noticed that there was a shadow of a shielded sturgeon in the background. :D
good eye! I probably should have made that detail a bit more obvious, but I am very glad you caught it
Do you have a website or deviant art with specific sizes for all the animals? I was wondering how big the owl was. Also why no mountain lions? Great project by the way.
You can join the discord to see some of the artwork, and I decided not to include felines because they play a huge part in the modern mammal predator niche, so I wanted to see what a world without cats or catlike animals would look like
@@AspenAspires Oh ok cool. Love your work. Do you do art for serina as well? Like the official website?
@@retroman355 not on the official site, I just do fanart at this point. Not opposed to the author using my work if he wants tho
@AspenAspires I thought it was official lol looks pretty good. One last thing have you heard of the diyu spec Evo project?
@@retroman355 not at the moment Diyu isn’t ringing bells for me
I love carnivorous pigs. Gotta be one of my favorite genders
Yoooo new video
Yep! I hope y'all are gonna like it :)
Bravo!
Thank you so much! keep an eye out because another video from the channel will be released in 4 days
@@AspenAspires awesome
pog
was the frog just an example of a frog or does it also live there?
The frog is just an example of one, I didn’t want to rip much more images off google like I did before like in the lore episode
@@AspenAspires makes sense
what do I need to trade the landlord for to get some speculative evolution?
These wore neat animals
Thank you!
@@AspenAspires the art quality wasn't the most consistent but understdeble considering the context of this project and a lot of it was really good
One thing that you should do is make sure you don't live your outtakes don't stay in the actual video, it's really wired to here you pause and repeat yourself randomly
Anyway keep it up 👍
@@happynihilist2573 thank you for the feedback! Many of the animals were drawn by others on the discord server, as Parias is a very collaborative project in nature
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What kinds of reptiles are there
Thank you for the comment! In the seeded vertebrate's video, that describes the reptile ancestors abandoned on the planet, but unfortunately the last 2 videos have been lacking in the reptile department due to the area covered being a part of the south polar circle, but episode 4 of Parias will have many more reptiles as it will be covering the desert of the western continent..
Where do you submit creatures?
Like is it the "canon-something-5myf" or the actual places like "Halpadalgi-sea"?
Hello! On the discord server the option to submit creatures is in #speculative-creature-submission! Thank you so much for commenting
@@AspenAspires ok thanks!
Why does the squirrel at 34:25 have a different art style
Wanted that one to have more art for it ig
@@AspenAspires ?
well I believe the original image may have needed a bit of help but i didn't want to offend the original artist so i included both versions. I would do this more often if we had a larger team@@DewyHasArrived
@@AspenAspires ah ok
Why do some of these look drawn?
thank you!
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@@randomchannel1184 i don't really know what you meant so I assumed your comment was a compliment on the art style of me and others on the discord server
I was asking why some creatures have well…better quality while others look like a 4th grader drew them.
@@randomchannel1184 on the discord server anyone can submit an animal or plant to join the canon organisms of Parias' future and we have artists with varying degrees of experience